UFC 170 Bonuses: Rousey, Thompson, MacDonald, Maia Earn $50K Awards

UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda
Rousey not only walked away from UFC
170 with a victory in the main event, but “Rowdy” also pocketed
a “Performance of the Night” bonus for her efforts.

Welterweight talent Stephen
Thompson earned the evening’s second performance bonus, while
Rory
MacDonald and Demian Maia
shared “Fight of the Night” honors for their hard-fought,
three-round affair. All four fighters were awarded $50,000 in bonus
money.

UFC 170 took place at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas and
saw Rousey successfully defend her crown for the third time, as the
judoka stopped fellow Olympian Sara McMann
with a knee to the liver just 66 seconds into their championship
headliner.

Earlier, Thompson scored a first-round finish of Robert
Whittaker to open the show’s pay-per-view broadcast, dropping
the Australian with a right straight and then polishing him off
with hard shots on the ground.

Though Maia mounted MacDonald in a dominant first round, the
Canadian came back strong in the second and third periods, avoiding
nearly all of Maia’s takedown attempts while battering the
Brazilian standing en route to a unanimous decision win.